|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:29 am
Cotton isn't animal-ish, is it? neutral I thought it was a plant. Wool's like hair. When I wrote animal I meant furs. sweatdrop
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:40 am
KirliaEmi Cotton isn't animal-ish, is it? neutral I thought it was a plant. Wool's like hair. When I wrote animal I meant furs. sweatdrop I don't think cotton is animal,no. Cotton, is like, on cotton swabs, those things you shove in your ear to get the wax out, or cotton pads to like.... put nailpolish remover on and then get the nailpolish off.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:01 pm
 Yeah, cotton is definitely grown. The first thing that came to mind was that cotton used to be grown on plantations back in the days of slavery. So it's a crop of some sort.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:30 pm
Wow, you people don't know what cotton is? Agni. xP
...
Cotton is a plant. Clothing made from animals would include silk (what is left of the 'silkworm' after it is steamed and gassed alive), leather (the flesh of a cow), fur (the flesh of a rabbit, mink, fox, cat, dog), wool (the hair of a sheep, though they use mulesing, so it all works out to skinning them alive as well). I don't wear flesh. Just my own. Wearing the flesh of another being is horrid and cruel and absolutely disgusting. If you think you don't wear it, good, but check again. Leather is used in so many things, especially shoes. For some reason, people find wearing the flesh of a dissenting cow as 'fabric' fashionable. But that's really beyond me. I'd also like to add in that if you would not wear their flesh over your own, why would you consume it?
COTTON, like I was saying before, is grown, a plant. That fact is taught to second graders. It's harvested and woven. Many other fabrics are grown as well. You don't have to skin a living being to make clothing. It's much more humane and convenient not to. Other plant textiles are hemp, bamboo, grass, rush, hemp, sisal, coir, straw, flax, jute, modal, piña, ramie, acetate, seaweed, alginate, and tencel. That's already a lot, plus mineral fibres, and then there are man made materials like polyester and spandex. Anything that is grown can be grown without the unnecessary use of harsh chemicals, therefore, they can, and should be, organic. Cotton is one of the most sprayed crops. I'm not going to support that kind of destructive farming.
... Yeah, I'm going to stop there, because none you you probably read any of that anyway. sad
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 8:16 am
I read it all! whee *yay*
Are you against wool, then, even though the wool is sheared off the animal (sheep stare ), like cutting a person's hair? I can't see how it could be called a fur.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 11:54 am
Ok jeez you dont all have to gang up on me, yes I know what cotton is I was combining it with wool in my head somehow sorry ><
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 2:45 pm
I read the entire thing. I would never wear real fur. I never got what was so "fashionable" about it. That always makes me think about 101 Dalmations.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 8:56 pm
KirliaEmi I read it all! whee *yay* Are you against wool, then, even though the wool is sheared off the animal (sheep stare ), like cutting a person's hair? I can't see how it could be called a fur.
MULESING. It is nothing like cutting a persons hair, which by the way, is done willingly by that being. Huge chunks of skin and flesh are cut from the animals’ backsides, without any painkillers. Millions of these sheep are then shipped to the Middle East on crowded multilevel ships. These journeys, which can last for months, are to countries where animal welfare standards are non-existent. The suffering sheep are dragged off the ships, loaded onto trucks, and dragged by their ears and legs to unregulated slaughterhouses, where their throats are slit while they are still conscious. Sheep may be feeling beings like all of us, but because there is a market for their fleece and skins, they are treated as nothing more than wool-producing machines. No amount of fluff can hide the fact that anyone who buys wool supports a cruel and bloody industry. Now, if you want to go beside just wool, and into flesh, the slogan of Uggs, you know, the shoes most everyone wears, happens to be 'The Sheep Skin Company'. In other words, they are skinned alive like the billions of other fashion victims.
And yes, there is nothing at all fashionable about fur. I don't get how people see leather and anything else as more okay, even though it's as not okay as wearing another humans skin. But whatever. People annoy me. ... That is a polite understatement.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:39 am
Wow; I've never heard of that. eek I always thought of the farmer style of shearing. sad
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:34 pm
That's because that is the image of wool the industry has put out there, so that you would never think of how things really happen. No one questions what they're subliminally told, and they remain ignorant.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:08 pm
Does that mean people don't shear anymore and it's all mulesing?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:17 pm
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that my relatives sheared their sheep on their farm (I'm wanting to say that they only owned a couple). However, said relatives are dead, so that might've been something of years past. *shrugs*
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:39 pm
Poor sheep. sad Does it include other animals?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 3:36 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 9:30 am
What other animals does mulesing affect? sad
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
